Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Yugoslavia Vladimir Popovic, Mr. Bruner, and Charles Yost

350 1713 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Return to S- Memorandum of Conversation me DATE: 252 September 5, 1950 SUBJECT: Call of the Yugoslav Ambassador conf PARTICIPANTS: The Secretary, Mr. Vladimir Popovic, Yugoslay Ambassador, Mr. Bruner, Interpreter, lbr. Charles W. Yost, Director, office of Eastern European Affairs. COPIES TO: s/s (2 copies) EUR - Mr. Perkins EE - Mr. Reinhardt the - Mr. Gannett - E - Mr. Thorp OFD - Mr. Stinebower Amer can Embassy, Belurade. u. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1 The Ambassador called at his request to speak to ne about several matters before his forthco.ing departure for Belgrade, where he intends to spend a few days during the visit of lr. Black of the International Bank. The Ambassador declared that before departing for Belgrade he wished to obtain the Secretary's views as to the extent to which the US Government would be able to assist in meeting the economic needs of Yugoslavia. The Ambassador said that his Government found it impossible to make plans for the future without having a clearer idea of the aid which might be forthcoming. A request for a loan of $25,000,000 had been before the International Bank for a full year and no action had yet been taken. A program for aid in dollars of $100,000,000, of which$30,000,000 had been requested immediately from the Eximbank and $25,000,000 from the/international Bank and the balance of which would be requested later, had been presented to the State Department and the Eximbank. The only results which had been obtained had been the recent $15,000,000 loan by the Rimbank. I replied by pointing out that the International Bank is, of course, not a US institution. I had, howover, discussed the question with Nr. Black and Mr. Black had informed me that the Yugoslay Government had not supplied all the information necessary for the bank to give favorable consideration to its request. I asked lir. Yost to explain the status of the remaining Yugoslav requests. TRUMAN DECLASSIFIED ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE" RECORDS AND 3 STATE DEPT. MEMO shay 8 COVERAGE Project NLT f2-4 By NLT- HL NARS, Date 8-11-74